Word: avenida
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedys on a 25-mile drive from Maiquetia Airport through Caracas to La Carlota airport, where helicopters took the party to an Alliance for Progress ceremony in a Venezuelan village. Between the airports, the crowds were small but well-behaved. In Caracas itself, the motorcade rolled unmolested down Avenida Sucre, where Nixon's limousine had been stopped, stoned and spat upon...
...Embassy. The mob, 20,000 strong, surged from downtown Lisbon up the broad, tree-lined Avenida da Liberdades, and hove to in front of the U.S. embassy right on schedule at 6:30 p.m., while there was still just enough light for the assembled cameras. Led on by loudspeaker trucks, the rioters screamed, "Down with America!" "Down with the U.N.!" and "Leave Angola to us!" They flaunted all manner of banners, which someone had conveniently supplied, demanding that the U.S. "Liberate Hungary First," "Get Out of Alaska," and "Remember Little Rock." Someone had also brought along rocks enough to smash...
...moderate with the years, Betancourt came to power two years ago after the overthrow of the tyrant Marcos Pérez Jiménez, and devoutly hopes to symbolize an end to the traditional violence of oil-rich Venezuela. Chauffeur Azael Valero swung the black presidential car onto the Avenida de los Próceres near the school. Ahead on the divided street sat a parked 1954 green Oldsmobile...